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Rahul Verma

Kanpur
As seen in: MSN India, The Indian Express, Frontline India, The Hindu, The Quint, The Telegraph (India), The Wire (India), Countercurrents, NewsClick, The India Forum
Covers:  Urban Affairs, Labour & Employment, Caste & Social Inequality, Public Policy, Education
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Children's Rights in India: Who Speaks for Them?

Children's Rights in India: Who Speaks for Them?

Frontline India — India's school systems track children but often fail to hear them. SMCs, NCPCR, and data systems must protect children who cannot protest.
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JNU V-C Santishree Pandit’s tenure: reform, rupture or repetition?

JNU V-C Santishree Pandit’s tenure: reform, rupture or repetition?

The Hindu —
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How ‘JNU-type’ hiring erodes learning across campuses

How ‘JNU-type’ hiring erodes learning across campuses

The Hindu —
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Leaked papers and lost years in India's recruitment system

Leaked papers and lost years in India's recruitment system

The Hindu — Amid protests, Jharkhand's aspirants demand a comprehensive investigation into systemic recruitment failures spanning seven years and multiple commissions.
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Maestro on trial

Maestro on trial

The Telegraph (India) — The charge that Ray peddled poverty to the West has circulated since the 1950s when some commentators worried that his early films about rural Bengal would confirm foreign stereotypes of India
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Why adult literacy keeps being relaunched

Why adult literacy keeps being relaunched

The Hindu — The most durable evidence on effective adult education comes from campaigns that treated literacy as a social project with visible stakes for communities and, not as an administrative target to be reported upward.
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As Bengal drops eggs from mid-day meals, Tamil Nadu and Odisha show another way

As Bengal drops eggs from mid-day meals, Tamil Nadu and Odisha show another way

The Hindu —
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The lack of accountability within the NTA

The lack of accountability within the NTA

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Dummy Schooling and Coaching

Dummy Schooling and Coaching

The India Forum — Dummy schools-where students remain enrolled but attend coaching centres-is not a regulatory failure but a structural outcome. When entrance exams control access to higher education, classroom learning becomes peripheral. We need to rethink how opportunity is allocated in the education system.
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From 27th to 1st: How Punjab became best-performing school education state

From 27th to 1st: How Punjab became best-performing school education state

The Hindu — Punjab’s rise is not just a political talking point. It reflects a series of operational choices, including filling vacancies, upgrading schools, investing in leadership, and making parent engagement part of governance. That is why it is also a systems story.
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India’s deferred future

India’s deferred future

Frontline India — A young workforce trapped between electoral short-termism and structural joblessness exposes a deeper failure of state capacity. As promises outrun delivery, India risks converting its largest demographic advantage into a prolonged economic and social liability.
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Why cartoons keep disappearing from school textbooks

Why cartoons keep disappearing from school textbooks

The Hindu — When cartoons vanish and difficult chapters thin out, the curriculum keeps the vocabulary of democracy on the page but removes the scenes in which democracy is contested or survives only because citizens pushed back. File photo from 2012 shows activists and students exhibiting cartoons, including the ones removed from an NCERT textbook after a controversy.
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Odisha's Mining Paradox: Rich in Ore, Poor in Practice

Odisha's Mining Paradox: Rich in Ore, Poor in Practice

Countercurrents — Large extractive projects in India follow a predictable sequence. A company or government identifies mineral wealth beneath land that communities have long occupied, a promise of regional transformation is made, the project proceeds and the question of whether that promise was kept is rarely asked with any institutional seriousness.
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A reality check on School Management Committees

A reality check on School Management Committees

The Hindu —
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What the Trans Amendment does to a student

What the Trans Amendment does to a student

The Hindu — The Trans Amendment impacts transgender students' access to scholarships and resources, complicating their educational journey in India.
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Ambedkar Jayanti is not really a celebration. It's a sleight-of-hand by powers-that-be

Ambedkar Jayanti is not really a celebration. It's a sleight-of-hand by powers-that-be

The Indian Express — India embraced Ambedkar's symbolism to avoid his radicalism, granting him a public holiday and a Bharat Ratna to buy itself the moral high ground to leave the underlying social architecture untouched. The system survived because it was useful to those who ran it
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What the UGC Stay Actually Suspended

What the UGC Stay Actually Suspended

The Wire (India) — An Article 14 challenge was used to stay the first mandatory mechanism designed to make the right to equality operable for the students least able to enforce it themselves.
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A flame the state cannot guarantee

A flame the state cannot guarantee

The Hindu — The West Asian war-driven LPG disruptions reveal weaknesses in India’s clean cooking system.
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Two Sentences and a 'Conspiracy'

Two Sentences and a 'Conspiracy'

The Wire (India) — When a state treats the citation of its own data as an act of institutional injury, it is not merely protecting its dignity. It is teaching the next generation that the safest way to read India is with their eyes closed.
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The widening gap between teacher expectations and institutional support

The widening gap between teacher expectations and institutional support

The Hindu — Explore the growing disparity between teacher demands and institutional support in India's educational landscape, highlighting urgent reform needs.
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Why Yuvraj Mehta’s death was not an accident

Why Yuvraj Mehta’s death was not an accident

The Hindu — In urban India, deaths caused by infrastructural failure are seen as unfortunate and incidental. In reality, cities do not witness such deaths, they produce them
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Faster is not fairer in POCSO case clearance numbers

Faster is not fairer in POCSO case clearance numbers

The Hindu — New data and field reports show that thousands of children and their families still face long trials with little support.
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The right to turn off: Disconnecting from India’s overwork trap

The right to turn off: Disconnecting from India’s overwork trap

The Hindu — Explore the implications of Supriya Sule’s Right to Disconnect Bill, advocating for worker autonomy and mental health in India.
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Teach the crisis: Why NCERT must rework climate and pollution education in its textbooks now

Teach the crisis: Why NCERT must rework climate and pollution education in its textbooks now

The Indian Express — Our children need more chapters on the environment, not less. They deserve books that mirror their reality
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